Tutorial – Second Life Viewer 2.1 Shadows

As promised, here is a video tutorial on shooting pictures with SL shadows using the Second Life Viewer 2.1 which you can download from here. Please be sure to check the system requirements to make sure you have the right kind of computer to run Second Life. Unfortunately on that page it does not tell us which video cards would be ideal for running shadows. Rumor has it that the majority of ATI cards do not work well with shadows, but please ask around and do some research to find out for sure.

Maybe later today (but probably tomorrow) I will do another video tutorial about shadows but using Kirstens Viewer.

Now again I do not have any technical training, so I’m sure I mispronounced things and/or didn’t show the best way to do it. So if you have any other information you think will be beneficial to the readers, please feel free to share it in the comments or do your own tutorial and link it in the comments. I would love to gather more information on how to go about using and shooting shadows more efficiently.

Hello Berry, I don’t use the viewer 2. because my lap top has not the requirement it should, and I can’t use the nearly lights with it, only day/night :S and watter and sky effects, or shadows.. ^^ lol I don’t dream on them, at the moment. Do you know if the Kirsten viewer allows the light settings, or is conditioned that much like the 2. ? I mean… I can use more graphics settings using viewer 1. If I want crash that’s my risc… dunno what they caped such settings at 2. :(

Would be nice if you can able to write a plain HTML page along with the pictures would be GREAT. Because I was truly looking forward to this amazing tutorial but it’s a “voice” tutorial that deaf people like me can’t hear. Hope you will have a time to write or you can tell someone else to write/screenshots for the interface to point it out for you… so you can put them together. I don’t mean to push you but I truly need this tutorial… BADLY! *LOL*

The reason I didn’t write out this tutorial in my blog post was because I linked to Banana Vella’s blog post which does have it all written out. I didn’t want to regurgitate the same thing so I figured I would just linked to Banana’s. She’s done a terrific job of explaining how to turn the shadows on in this viewer, even more so than I ever could. Please have a look when you get the chance. This is what I had written in my Tutorial:

I just had a question regarding the clearness you have when taking images with shadows on your face. I have trouble with getting my face to be smooth and clean like you have yours when i work with shadows. It usually blurs my face or has weird effects on it.

Is there something your using like a facelight or such that keeps your face looking so clear?

One of the things that I don’t understand in doing SL photography…and I don’t know if it’s my settings, but whenever I use the snapshot in any viewer…it doesn’t capture anything that I see on the camera view…

what I’ve been doing is doing a print screen save and working off of that….